Under-garment



(No Model.)

. UNDER GARMENT. N0.352,393. y PatntedNov. 9, 1886.

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F. BARTON BROWN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

uNDER-GAR'MENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,393, dated November 9, 1886.

Application filed March 1, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, F. BARTON BROWN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new Improvement in Under-Garments5 and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying` drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear,- and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a front view of the garment with the parts of the flap as secured at the front; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same, Fig. 3, a side view of the same; Fig. 4, a rear View of the garment, showing the iiap turned upward against the back and showing the opening through the legs at the rear.

This invention relates to an improvement in what are commonly called combinationgarments-that is to say, in which the body and legs are made together, designed for under-garments and bathing-suits, the object of the invention being to avoid the strain upon the garment in bending forward, as in assuming a sitting position; and it consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

A represents the body portion, and B Bthe two legs. Above the waist the body with the sleeves may be in the usual form, 'and preferably so as to button in front, as indicated in Fig. l. The legs are attached to the front portion of the garment, and form, respectively, a continuation of each side of the front, open upto the waist-line, as indicated in broken lines; but instead of extending around so as to meet at the back, the leg portions at the waist `are made narrower, so as to extend but little to the rear ofthe hip-joint, as indicated at a, Fig. 3, and so that the rear portion below the waist is open` as seen in Fig. 4. Thus theleg portions in the rear are entirely detached from the body portion. To the lower edge of the body portion at the back and about the Waistline, as seen in Fig. 4,` a iiap, C, is attached or formed as a part of the body, the fiap being in length sufficient to pass down between the legs, so as to cover the opening at the rear, and up in front. At each side of the iiap C is an extension, D, in length sufficient t'o extend toward the front, as indicated in Figs. l and 3,

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and at the extreme end the iap C is also provided with extensions E E to the right and left, so that when the ap O is drawn up between the legs to the front the two extensions E E may be joined to the extensions D D, as indicated in Fig.' 1, thus securing the iiap around the waist and between the legs, so as to completely cover the opening at the rear and in the front, and as indicated inFigs. 1, 2, and 3. f c

The legs being attached to the front of the body at the waist-line. as seen in Fig. 3, and extended downward therefrom, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3, inside the flap at the rear and entirely independent of the nap-connections, the movement of the body does not draw upon the legs at the rear, as in the usual construction, when the legs at the rear extend up to the body. In the movement of the body, as in bending forward or in assuming a sitting position, the iiap C moves with the body but slides upon the legs, and hence gives to the legs of the garment perfect freedom independent of the body.

The flap O is cut into shape and gored, if necessary, as seen in Fig. 4, in order to bring it into the proper shape to pass between the legs without discomfort to the wearer.

By this construction the garment, while made as one continuous article, gives as much freedom to thewearer as if the parts were made separate from each other, and all strain upon the shoulders or garment in bending is avoided.

I claim- The herein-described combinationgarment, consisting of the body A and the legs B B, permanently attached as a continuous garment, the leg portions extending from the front rearward at thewaist-line to about the hip-line, open at the rear, with the flap C, attached tothe back at the waist-line, adapted l to be brought forward between the legs, and

provided with extensions D D and E E, the said extensions D D adapted to be brought forward at eachl side and to meet the extensions E E, so as to secure the said flap, substantially as described. Y

F. BARTON BROWN. Witnesses:`

CHAs. M. REED, JAMES A. L. WHITTIER. 

